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"noframemerging" in Edge is not supported
Edge doesn’t support “noframemerging” feature. We have an application with use cases that require having multiple login sessions open at the same time. These sessions are merging when opened in different InPrivate Edge windows, as cookies are shared among all open InPrivate windows. With Edge’s multiple profiles feature, this issue is mitigated but not entirely for some of our use cases. Is there a plan to bring back the support of “noframemerging” or anything to that effect in future versions of Edge? Also, in case it matters, our application needs to run in IE mode in Edge so any alternate feature would need to work for this case as well.
Darshini_Patel Thanks for letting us know that you'd like to see "noframemerging." I'm looping in one of our product team members and will let you know if they have any clarifying questions or insights on this.
Fawkes (they/them)
Project & Community Manager - Microsoft EdgeDeleted Do you have an update from the product team?
Darshini_Patel Thanks for following-up. Yes, they have a couple questions for you:
- Re: "With Edge’s multiple profiles feature, this issue is mitigated but not entirely for some of our use cases;" are you comfortable sharing more details about the uses cases not covered by MS Edge's multiple profiles?
- Similarly, can you share which IE mode elements you still need to use?
- And what is the goal/ideal state that you're looking to achieve with this workflow?
Fawkes (they/them)
Project & Community Manager - Microsoft Edge
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We have the same issue. It only occurs when we use IEMode. If we choose to open in native IE we can have multiple sessions with individual logins.
We have the registrysetting for NoFrameMerge *(FrameMerging=Dword0) which is honored when using native IE. But it does not function when using IEMode from Edge.
Ulrich_Bernskov Thanks for letting us know, and welcome to the MS Edge Insider community! I've also shared your perspective with the team and will let you know if/when they have any updates after finishing their discussion.
Fawkes (they/them)
Project & Community Manager - Microsoft Edge
- Me too. The issue that I have that was not an issue with the "-noframemerge" in IE, but is a very big issue with MS Edge. My situation is that I need to be logged in to one website with one user ID in multiple windows to switch to the function of the website that I need (one for balances, another for the history that causes the balances, and another for the basis for the rate of the balances). So the separate user profiles feature will not work for my situation.
- Kelly_Y
Microsoft
Elizabeth1969 Darshini_Patel Nrein2062 Ulrich_Bernskov esirvys Hello Everyone! (I tried to tag everyone in the thread, apologies if I missed anyone!)
I know this thread has been around for awhile. I wanted to follow up as the team is doing some investigation about nomerge with IE mode in Microsoft Edge. Specifically they are trying to understand better how customers are using nomerge.
Would you be able to answer the following questions?
- For your scenario, do you use the nomerge command-line option, the registry option, and/or the new session option?
- When you are in a scenario that requires nomerge, are you usually using multiple tabs in the same window? If so, are those tabs part of the same workflow?
Hoping you folks can help! Thank you!
-Kelly
Darshini_Patel Me too. The issue that I have that was not an issue with the "-noframemerge" in IE, but is a very big issue with MS Edge. My situation is that I need to be logged in to one website with one user ID in multiple windows to switch to the function of the website that I need (one for balances, another for the history that causes the balances, and another for the basis for the rate of the balances). So the separate user profiles feature will not work for my situation.
Me too! We develop a Health Application in IE11. We would like to use Edge instead of IE11.
Doctors share the same computer to use our application (and same table and chair) each one of them with their own session opened with a shortcut with noframemerging / nomerge that has been working for years (from IE6)...
With edge this is not working.
We were trying to use profiles for that and we almost succeed.
We make the shortcut with a program that do something like: read localstate file to find all our opened profiles and find out which of them were actives or inactives.
If there is any inactive profile we open our url with it. If not, we create a new one from Default, but changing the preferences to set clear_data_on_exit.
That way we don't need to create a new one each time (probably hundreds or thousands of them in a little time) each time a user open our application.It seemed that it worked, but then we wanted to use --app= for open in app mode, and it stopped working.
We have filled a bug in: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1211387
Issue 1211387: Local State: when open with "--app=URL", the attribute "last_active_profiles" of "Local State" file is not updated with the profile that is using it.Any ideas? Can Microsoft help in the resolution of this bug until Microsoft give a real solution to the nomerge problem?
We think a replace for nomerge functionality is a must for a browser to support enterprise applications that have completely different scenarios that people using their own computer at home to browse internet.
And this replacement has to be specified as a browser feature easy to be used, without reading or writing browser files that maybe will change in next version of the browser.
The lack of this feature is making us being sticky to IE11 instead of give the next step in the right direction with Edge.- Kelly_Y
Hi Everyone! IE mode on Microsoft Edge will support nomerge starting in Microsoft Edge version 93. Currently it can be tested in Microsoft Edge v93 Beta channel: Download Microsoft Edge Insider Channels
Please see the FAQ for instructions:
Thanks!
-Kelly
